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Fulham are clearly more than a club - they are a lifestyle choice
As Fulham's weary army of supporters return home following their team's harsh Europa League final defeat, as Lily Allen dries her eyes and Hugh Grant leaves a healthy tip for the nice man who kept bringing him beer throughout the game, we have to wonder: has there ever been a more polite collective of football followers to leave these shores?
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A couple of years back, a friend of mine was horrified by a bunch of Rangers fans he happened to share a plane with on their way to a Champions League tie in Spain. Primeval was how he described their attitude to the cabin crew.
Fulham's supporters, on the hand, overwhelmingly behaved in Hamburg like a finishing school outing. And their numbers are likely to be swelled by many a like mind following their magnificent European adventure.
Including that Rangers-averse friend of mine. He is now living in west London and, although a long term supporter of another club, he tells me he has just bought season tickets for Craven Cottage.
It is, he explains, a delightful place to take his two young sons, the most civilised setting he knows for a bit of father-son bonding.
Like Barcelona, Fulham are clearly more than a club. They are a lifestyle choice.
+1, I have made Fulham my lifestyle choice!
After that final it made me reflect just how lucky/proud I was to have chosen Fulham as my club, even though we didn't win to be around so many wonderful people who had one ambtion that night to live a dream, so nearly made it and one day WE WILL :clap_hands:
